Cabinet-door mounting



. Ma 28, 1929. NJWQRMAN 1,714,747

CABINET DOOR MOUNTING Filed July 6, 19,28 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 fits--3-INVENTOR: Nafimn Wm'mnm,

Patented May 28, i929.

NATHAN WORLIAN, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA;

CABINET-DOOR MOUNTIIF Application filed July 6, 1928. Serial No.290,787.-

My invention relates to cabinets and more particularly to mountings forcabinet doors.

While my improved mounting may be adapted for use on doors or closuresof various kinds, it will be illustrated and described in conjunctionwith a sectional bookcase.

In order that the doors or closures of such bookcases may not form anobstruction when open, it is customary to so mount them that they may beslid beneath the tops of the sections but the mountings heretofore produccd for this purpose have proved unsatisfactory as, in opening andclosing the doors,

care mustbe used to keep their ends parallel with the ends of thebookcase or they will stick.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and sturdy mountingfor cabinet doors which will permit them to be moved inwardly andoutwardly without danger of sticking.

This object is attained by providing guides for attachment to the endsof the cabinet, sleeves slidable on the guides for supporting the doorwith its edges parallel to the ends of the cabinet and for limiting theoutward movement of the door, and a support connected to the sleeves andattachable to the door, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inwhich i Figure 1 is a front view of a bookcase section in which myimproved mounting has been installed, the door being shown open in orderto expose the mounting,

Figure 2 a bottom sectional taken on line 22 on Figure 1, v

Figure 3 a fragmentary cross-section on line 33 on Figure 1,

Figure 4- an enlarged fragmentary section through one end of themounting, as indicated by line 4-4: on Figure 3,

Figure 5 a view'similar' to Figure 4 but showing a modified form ofsleeve, and v Figure 6 an enlarged perspective View of a fragment of adetached mounting.-

The bookcase section, which consists of a bottom 6, ends 7 and 8, back9, top strip 10 and door 11, and shown provided with a conventional cap12 having a groove 13 for clearing the top of the door, is of well knowncon struction and will not be described in detail.

A support 14 has a sleeve 15 on each end plan View,

' which is slidably mounted upon a guide 16 having its ends 17 and 18bent substantially at right angles and provided with plates 19 forattaching the guides to the ends of a cabinet. Bearings 20 are mountedupon supsleeves, or both I g In order to employ sleeves of considerablelength, each one is preferably provided with a slot 21 for clearingmovement of the door. The sleeve may be formed from a piece of tubing,as shown by i and mounted upon its sleeve l5 in Figure l, gu de beforethe ends of the guide are bent or it may be formed from flat materialorguides 16 lined up, to the end walls. bearings 20 will hold the dooragainst lateral movement and the sleeves arc length to prevent one endof the door from advancing'faster than the other when it is slidinwardly or outwardly,thus obviating any danger of sticking.

From the position shown in Figure 2, the door may be closed by simplypulling it outwardly until the ends 22 of slots 21 abut ends 17 of theguides, when it will swinglinto positron of its own weight, groove 13providing clearance for the top of the door and recesses 24 and 25,formed in the door alongside bearand plates 19 secured sleeves l5 andsecured to thedoor Wl11Cl1 is then placed in position,

of sutlicient port 14 and may be rotatablethereon or the support may berotatable in the'w a'lls of the bent end 17 of the guide; the end 22 ofthe slot being adapted to abut bent end 17. and limit the outward" Byabutting the sleeves} in closed position in Figure, 3.

It -is to be understood that the apparatus herelnbefore described may bechanged with in the scope of the invention asset forth and that I do notwish to be limited in the application thereof, except as I i by theprinciples hereinbefore set forth and by the appended claims.

claim: 7 I i 1. In acabinet having end members an opening in the frontand a closure for the opening slidable transversely with respect to theend members, closure including guides extending transversely of said endmembers, sleeves on the guides, and a support mounted on the closure andconnected to the sleeves.

2.-In a cabinethaving an opening and a closure for the opening, meansfor mounting the closure-including guides on the ends of shall belimited the cabinet, sleeves on the guides, hearings on the closure, anda support mounted in the bearings and connected to the sleeves.

3. In a cabinet having an opening and a closure for the opening, meansfor inount ing the closure including guides parallel With the ends ofthe cabinet, bentends on the guides secured to the ends of the cabinet,sleeves on the guides, a support connected to the sleeves, and bearingsmounted on the support and secured to the closure.

4. In a cabinet having an opening and a closure for the opening,meansfor mounting the closure including guides parallel with the ends ofthe cabinet, bent ends on the guides secured to the ends of the cabinet,a sleeve slidable on each guide and having a slot for clearing the bentend of the guide, a support connected to the sleeves, and bearingsmounted on the support and secured to the closure.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

' NATHAN WORMAN.

